5.6 Summary
MySQL is a powerful, sophisticated, and easy-to-use SQL database program. Using Perl and DBI, one can easily create programs to automate database management tasks. With this knowledge, the prospective web designer should be able to construct a database-based (for lack of a better term) web site that is portable, sophisticated, easy to manage, and professional appearing. We have examined only a small subset of all that MySQL provides (our 80/20 rule in effect).
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Open Source Web Development with LAMP: Using Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl, and PHP
By
James Lee, Brent Ware